Laundry-drying appliance



July 14, 1925. I 1,545,923

J. E. PIETERICK LAUNDRY DRYING APPLIANCE Filed Aug. 14, 1922 Patented July 14, 1925.

UNITED. STATES" JOHN E. PIETE RI CK OF CAYUGA, NORTH DAKOTA.

LAUNDRY-DRYING APPLIANCE.

Application filed August 14, 1922. Serial No. 581,562. I

T oaZZ whom it mag concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN E. PIETERIOK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cayuga, in the county of Sargent and State of North Dakota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Laundry-Dry ing Appliances, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to devices for facilitating the drying of family wash and has as its main object the provision of means for displaying the laundered articles in a manner that is absolutely safe, no leaning outward from the window being required.

A further purpose is to provide a device that is inexpensive in construction, easily attached to the exterior of an ordinary window from which it is rigidly extended and can be used with entire convenience.

These objects, aims and purposes are at tained by the novel construction and arrangement of parts hereafter described and shown in the accompanying drawing, forming part of this disclosure, and in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of an embodiment of-the invention as extended for use.

Figure 2 is a similar view of the same, but shown as being partially withdrawn through a window into the room for attaching the articles to be aired or dried.

The drawing clearly shows the construction and in a manner that requires but brief explanation.

Attached securely on each side of a window casing, to the outer wall and at a height just below the bottom of the upper sash, are a pair of brackets 10 in which are fixed right angularly bent elements, as pipe elbows 11 and engaged in these elbows is a rigid bar 12 extending across the window opening.

Fixed on this bar, at points falling within the vertical plane of the window casing are T fittings 13, their side openings being directed horizontally outward and set in these openings are pipes 14: extending a conaiderable distance outward from the win- These pipes have at their ends elbows 15 connected by a rod or tube 16 to which are attached the ends of guy rods or cords 17 having means at their upper ends for engaging hooks 18 fiXed in the wall above the window opening.

Fixed at spaced distanceson the rods are supports 19 having forked lower ends in which are rotatably mounted grooved rollers 20 and resting on these rollers are the side elements 21 of a light rectangular frame, the end members 22 of which support one or more pairs of pulleys 23 over which lines 24 may be trained.

In operation, the frame may be drawn to extend into the room through the open window, articles disposed on the lines 24, and projected outwardly by pulling the line in an obvious manner and eventually when the lines are filled, the frame is moved outward, tracking on the rollers 20, and the window closed.

As the frame enters sufliciently to handle the articles on the lines, no danger of falling from the window need be entertained.

From the foregoing it will be seen that a neat appearing, strong and convenient structure has been disclosed, that has utility in performing the drying operation in domestic laundries.

While the foregoing is generally descriptive of the preferred embodiment of the 1n- 7 vention, it is not desired to restrict the invention to the exact details, as minor changes ing, a pair of T fittings fixed on said bar at I spaced points and having their center openings directed horizontally, outwardly, a pair of side rods having their inner ends fixed in the center openings of said T fittings, a clothes line carrying frame, and means carried by said pair of side rods for supporting said clothes line carrying frame for movement inwardly of and out of the building through said window opening.

2. A laundry drying appliance including a rigid supporting frame having side members and provided with means to mount the same in a substantially horizontal position entirely exteriorly of a building in alignment with a window opening of the latter, a

plurality of supports fixed to and depending from each of the side members of said supporting frame, rollers journa-led in the lower ends of said supports, and a rigid clothes line carrying frame having end and side members, said side members of the clothes line carrying "frame resting on said roller so as to permit movement of said latter frame inwardly or outwardly of the 10 building through said window opening, certain of said roller carrying-supports being arranged ad acent the mner and outer ends of the side members of the supportingframe and adapted to be engaged by the end members of the clothes line carrying frame limiting the inward and outward movement of the latter.

In Witness whereof I have aflixed my signature. 7

JOHN nrmmmon 

